Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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    41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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    1054 AD Supernova
    1054 AD Supernova
    In the year 1054 AD, there was an explosion in the sky so bright that it was visible for 23 days straight, even during the day.
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    The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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    All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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    Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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